INTRODUCTION. vii 



So far as health and condition are 

 preferable to disease, so much the more desi- 

 rable must PREVENTION ever prove to the 

 necessity'of cure. The purport of the pre- 

 sent undertaking M'ill, therefore, be found 

 appertaining much more to such parts of 

 stabularian discipline, as ,come under the 

 distinction of novelty, and not treated on 

 in a direct xcay, than at ail applicable to the 

 investigation or cure of disease ; unless in 

 occasional allusions or medical references, 

 evidently branching from the subject, and 

 tending to corroborate and improve the in- 

 tentional uniformity of the whole: it be- 

 ing the predominant wish of the writer, to 

 render this publication such kind of colla- 

 teral appendage to The Stable Direc- 

 tory, as may constitute in loth, a com- 

 plete chain of useful and entertaining in- 

 struction for the improvement of the spe- 



